Omaha daily bee., 1887-08-03
He OBJECTED TO The RANGE.
n. Ferry Refuses to Be Target at Twenty
PAGES.
WHAT m. eoULANeER HAS TO SAY
Dillon Calls Down Speaker Peele for
His Partial Rulings-Gladston-
ians Win a Great Victory
Other Foreign News
The French FiascO.

tCopptoht 1887 bv James Gordon Benntte.l
PARIS, August 2.-lNew York Herald
Cabe-Specal to the BEE. .l--For several days
the impending rry-Boulanger duel has
been overhanging the Partisan atmosphere
like suppressed sneeze. The gallant gen.
erals seconds General Faverot and COmte
Dillon, have been chassezng and croisezng
about France like Daniels In some gigantic
cOtllion trying to find Ferry's seconds. Fly
ing journeys have been made to st. Die near
the German frontier, to Bordeau and the
Atlantic coast and to Uriage in the Isere.
In fact Rochefort has surnamed this duel
d. Italie. Your correspondent can
only compare this duel to one in Egypt
when, as one OF the late General Stones
seconds, he had to travel 500 miles in mid
summer on camel through the Arabian
desert to find DIR. Schweingunth, the other
principal in the duel The four seconds,
however, Messieurs AntOnin Proust and
Raynal for Ferry and General Faverot and
Count Dillon for Boulanger, all came to-
gether to-day in Psris,s The result unless
Ferry changes is no duel after all. Bou-
langer's seconds publish in this evenings
papers process verbal, over their sigma
lures. Of which the following is a summary:
general BOulanger having, as the offended
party, the choice OF weapons and desiring to
make as far as possible the chances of the
combat, chooses pistols; General BOulanger
demanding the serious satisfaction justified
by the gravity of the insult His
second, General Faverot and Count
Dillon, proposed that an indefinite
number of balls should be exchanged until
one or the other of the adversaries should be
nit. These conditions were declined by NJ.
Farrv,o oaDnnda Gn in nrlo fo orriv NJ IN,
agreement, General Boulanger's seconds eon-
sented to be satisfied with an exchange of
one ball at twenty PAGES, each party to fire at
the word of command, but at will, such being
the extreme limit of concession compatible
with their formal and repeated instructions
from General BOuanger. Then NJ Ferry's
seconds, MessieurS PrOust and Raynal, de-
clared that they would only accept duel at
twenty-five PAGES, only one ball to be eX
changed and the firing to be at the word of
command. The right of the seconds of the
insulted party being to merely state the con-
ditiOns for arranging the combat without
having to submit to the conditions proposed
by the seconds of the other party, General
Faverott and Comte Dillon withdrew from
further proceedings.
Signedl GENERAL FAvERoT,
CoMTE DILLON.
PARIS, Augusta.
have an assurance from General Bou-
LANCER to the following effect: Had l not
been in command Of portion of the French
army, had been merely awaiting orders, as
II was before left Paris, should have paid
no attention to the remarks made in M.
Ferry's speech, but now that l am in COM
mand OF the corps d'armee Of the French
army it is my bounden duty to the honor and
the epaulettes of the officers have the honor
to command, not to brook any aspersions
being cast by any one upon the dignity of
the chief. 1t is on this account that in
sisted on reparatlOn likely to preclude, If
possible, this sterile result